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NFL Photographer Reviews the Canon 1D X Mark III, Calls it a Game-Changer

Fancy Live View and Video features aside, the Canon 1D X Mark III is primarily a camera for sports photographers. So who better to review it than Peter

Life Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Feature Shoot

It’s early September, 2014, and the sun is shining over a verdant landscape dotted with grazing horses. The people who live there, mostly the elderly women known affectionately as “babushkas,”…

Post date January 24, 2020
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Tags Raul Arantes

Urban Street Portraits – Photographs by Jens Krauer | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture

Swiss photographer Jens Krauer takes to the streets to share some insider insights and talk about what drives his impulse to document our urban lives

Post date January 23, 2020
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Freedom or Death: Revisiting an archive of conflict, tragedy, and struggle – British Journal of Photography

In 1990, Gideon Mendel left a box of negatives in his friend’s garage in South Africa. Now, 30 years later, the damaged negatives are reincarnated in a photobook

Post date January 23, 2020
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Anna Grevenitis: Regard | LENSCRATCH

As a juror I have had the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of work. Many times the images I juror are unthethered from their statements, so the photograph needs to have a stand alone power all it's own. Every time I have come across images by Ann

Post date January 23, 2020
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Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain

In the autumn of 1960, American photographer Bruce Davidson landed a commission that would take him to the UK for the first time. Starting in London, he bought a Hillman Minx convertible and travelled to the South Coast before heading north to Scotland. H

Post date January 23, 2020
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Astonishing Photos of Soviet Village Life Found In Abandoned House

In the spring of 2016, film student Victor Galusca was exploring a sleepy village in his native Moldova when the 23-year-old noticed some photographic

Chad Ress: America Recovered | LENSCRATCH

Chad Ress has recently released a new monograph, America Recovered, published by Actar Publishers, Barcelona & New York. The book and project examine the point where "abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing

Post date January 21, 2020
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What is life really like for a conflict photographer?

Cengiz Yar has seen a few things in his time. But it was away from the frontlines that he came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

Post date January 21, 2020
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The Erasure of Political History at the National Archives | The New Yorker

In altering photos from the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, the National Archives engaged in the very opposite of what it had been created to do: forge a clear and accurate historical record.

Post date January 20, 2020
Post categories In Ethics
Tags Ellen Shub

North Korea. The Power Of Dreams – The Leica camera Blog

It was already the ninth time that the photographer Xiomara Bender was able to travel to North Korea

Link:
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/01/20/north-korea-the-power-of-dreams/

Post date January 20, 2020
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Susan Berger: Life and Soul: American Streets Honoring Martin Luther King | LENSCRATCH

Today marks the birthday of iconic civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and on this MLK Day when we consider past and current heartbreaking histories, we are featuring a project that celebrates the streets that reflect his name, all across America.

Post date January 20, 2020
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National Archives Edited Photo to Remove Anti-Trump Messages

The National Archives is an independent government agency that's tasked with preserving and documenting government and historical records. An authority on

Post date January 19, 2020
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50 Artists Donate to Support the Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal, Launching Today – Feature Shoot

All across Australia, bushfires are burning at an unprecedented scale. On January 14, the Australian government announced that the fires have devastated estimated 46 million acres (72,000 square miles), killing…

Post date January 19, 2020
Post categories In Photography
Tags Alec Soth, Katrin Koenning, Laurence Watts, Luke Le, Max Pinckers

How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town – The New York Times

Newnan, Ga., decided to use art to help the community celebrate diversity and embrace change. Not everyone was ready for what they saw.

“Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images | The New Yorker

Ben Brody’s book has no narrative, because, from the perspective of an American infantryman in Baghdad, the war had none.

Post date January 19, 2020
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Roberta Bayley, the queen of punk, on New York’s raw years

After living in London in the early ’70s, California native Roberta Bayley arrived in New York in 1974 because it was the only return ticket she could afford back to the States. Serendipity served Bayley well. She soon met a young musician by the name of

Photographing Impeachment Proceedings Against Three Presidents | The New Yorker

David Burnett, whose images from the Watergate hearings and Clinton impeachment have become iconic, will be on hand as the Senate decides the fate of Donald Trump.

Where is Photography Banned? – Feature Shoot

In the last decade, photographers covering stories for The New York Times, Getty Images, National Geographic, and more have been arrested for taking pictures on US soil. Authorities cracking down…

Post date January 17, 2020
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Celebrating the Pioneering Colour Photography of Harry Gruyaert | AnOther

Post date January 17, 2020
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